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Virgin Atlantic offers passengers the option to offset their flight emissions with carbon offsets bought from the Oddar Meanchey REDD+ project in Cambodia. Passengers can offset the emissions associated with their journeys and Virgin Atlantic , in partnership Natural Capital Partners to run this scheme. The Virgin Group includes several airline companies, which are responsible for millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. In 2007, he launched Virgin America, and in 2012, Virgin Australia.

Representatives from nine different Asia-Pacific countries – Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam – gathered in Hanoi in November to share experiences and lessons from meeting safeguards requirements for REDD+ at a South-South knowledge exchange hosted by the Viet Nam Forestry Administration. Guests representing the two other tropical forest regions where REDD+ is being pursued – Ghana for Africa, and Peru from Latin America – were also present.

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, countries choosing to implement REDD+, and obtain payments for measured, reported and verified greenhouse gas emission reductions, are required to develop a national-level safeguards information system. This is to show how the ‘Cancun safeguards’ for REDD+ are being addressed and respected when implementing REDD+. A national safeguards information system is also an eligibility criterion for REDD+ result-based payments under the Green Climate Fund.

The main objective of the assessment of the forest cover resources is to provide information on actual forest cover resource throughout Cambodia a source of fundamental information to contribute to the development of the management strategies and action plans as part under the National Forest Program (NFP) and for the production of activities data for the implementation of the Cambodia Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) Program. Download the report click here.

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CSO REDD+ Network in Cambodia

The Civil Society Organizations REDD+ Network in Cambodia was established in early 2013 and is facilitated by the Cambodian NGO Forum. The network consists of around 20 CSOs and NGOs working on REDD+ and natural resource management in Cambodia.